I.G.I.-2: Covert Strike is a computer game developed by Innerloop Studios and released by Codemasters in 2003. The game is a stealth-based first person shooter. It is the sequel to Innerloop's Project I.G.I.: I'm Going In. The original, published by Eidos Interactive, offered only single-player play. Chris Ryan, a former Special Air Service operative best known for being the lone successful escapee of Bravo Two Zero, served as a consultant to the game.
The game's plot features a rogue Chinese
General, "Wu Xing" as the primary antagonist. Xing orchestrates various
events (such as armed robbery of advanced prototype technology from the
Russian mafia) in order to get Electromagnetic pulse (EMP) weaponry on a
space rocket
that he has launch control over. At the end of the game, the
protagonist David Jones is finally able to defeat him and stop the
launch.
The game's protagonist, David Jones, an agent working for the Institute
for Geotactical Intelligence and former British SAS operator, was sent
to the Carpathian mountains to recover a set of EMP chips stolen by a
group of Russian mafia from a high-tech US facility. After HALO jumping
and infiltrating the weather station in the mountains and retrieving
one of the EMP chips, his mission director (Phillip White) commands him
to go to retrieve the remaining EMP chips so that the IGI researchers
can launch a full scale research on the chips to determine their real
usage against the thieves. He then goes to the bridge and destroys it.
Then in the production facility he gets half of the EMP chips. After
this incident, he is betrayed by his pilot, Robert Quest and mission
director, Phillip White as they take the EMP chips obtained by Jones.
After a series of events, he eventually finds himself at the borders of
Romania, where he is then forced to evade the incoming border patrols.
Meanwhile, his former pilot and mission director had escaped. The IGI
was not able to detect their whereabouts after the incident, but spent
enough efforts to get an important detail that Phillip White had made
several weapons and military deals with Jach Priboi in Libya.
Under Anya, his new mission director, he sets off to Libya and searches
for the middle-aged Priboi, who had been locked up by the Libyan
Intelligence as he was supplying weapons to the rebel forces.
After
rescuing Priboi and escaping out of the Libyan prison, Priboi
states that all the information which David needs is in a safe in his
villa,
which was at that time being used as a command center by the Libyan
general, Major Zaleb Said. David decides to go to the villa to get the
information. Surprisingly, after expunging much effort and going through
many of gunfights, Priboi discovers that Major Said had taken his
papers and he then vows angrily to take them back. He tells David to
take control of the helicopter in his airbase not far away from the
villa in order to confront Major Said. They get the helicopter without
much conflict, and manage to gun Major Said down amidst the confusion
and get the papers back. Upon returning to his villa, Priboi tells David
that the trade he made with David's former mission director was in a
seaport in Egypt.
David sets off to the port without
hesitation, and discovers that
Robert Quest and Phillip White were actually cooperating with an unknown
country to operate the chips. David kills his former pilot in the
before mentioned seaport, and takes a ekranoplan to the unknown country
and ventures off to the Spratly Islands near China, where Anya states to
be running suspicious activities throughout the
time. What Anya said was quite true; David found his mission director
cooperating in secrecy with a Chinese general, whom he found out later
to be General Wu Xing, who plans to use the chips to blindfold US
intelligence and cripple the powers within.
Later David finds his former mission director Phillip White killed by
General Wu Xing himself, as the former accused the latter of killing
his friend Robert Quest, who was actually killed by David at the
Egyptian port. In Wu Xing's secret weapons lab, David Jones gets to know
that the General was going to start a "World War III". He then engages in a gunfight with Wu Xing killing him.
After some chaos and confusion, David tracks the entire plan location to a large and closely guarded rocket launch pad, where Anya asks him to disable the system immediately before the launch is made and causes an international incident. With efforts, David then succeeds in preventing the rocket from heading towards its programmed destination and to detonate somewhere safe. Finally, he prevents a major disaster from occurring, and the world is once again safe and sound
